In light of a wider conflict in which nuclear powers like India and Pakistan are involved, the ugly prospect of armed gangs controlling the streets of India-administered Kashmir only spells doom for ordinary Kashmiris.
For Kashmir watchers, Ali's killing was confounding because the police pinned it on a "gang rivalry". Never before in the past 30 years of the conflict did Kashmir witness a killing by any organised crime syndicate since such cartels have never existed in the region.
The police's gang theory also raised the spectre of the Ikhwan, a dreaded counter-insurgency unit thatas India's "secret army," accusing it of "grave human rights abuses, including summary executions, torture, and illegal detention as well as election-related intimidation of voters." One Srinagar resident described him as a "fitness freak" who had participated and won prizes in local bodybuilding competitions.
Another senior police officer who keeps a tab on the city's crime incidents said the 16 Gujjar Chattabal was recently investigated for a stabbing incident targetting a "rival gang" called Bemina Belts, in which seven individuals were booked on charges of "attempt to murder". "He had nothing to do with the police or politicians. We didn't even know he had 10 thousand Instagram followers. It is unfair how he is being treated after his death," said one of Ali's school friends from the elite Delhi Public School.
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